We Know That Guy!

Former Dartmouth corner Chris Blanco '07, now an assistant general manager of the Houston Texans, has been selected to participate in the NFL Accelerator Program, an initiative created in 2022 to increase diversity in leadership roles within the league.

From Blanco's bio (LINK):

Blanco was a two-year starter at cornerback at Dartmouth College from 2003-07, where he earned his bachelor's degree in sociology. In addition to playing football for the Big Green, Blanco also was a member of the Dartmouth boxing team.

Blanco earned a doctorate degree from The University of Iowa College of Law, where he was the co-founder and co-president of the Sports Law Society and served as a recruiting assistant for the Hawkeyes football team.

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Another day with precious little news, so a little more trivia courtesy of Rick Bender, the former Dartmouth SID who built up detailed spreadsheets with all kinds of names and numbers regarding the Big Green athletic programs.

Now directing athletic communications at Williams College, Bender has no need for the Dartmouth information he compiled, so he was kind enough to pass along a variety of the football spreadsheets he so meticulously created and updated. One of those spreadsheets includes the quarter scoring totals for both Dartmouth and its opponents for every game since 1923.

Thanks to Rick, here are the highest scoring quarters for the Big Green, and against the Big Green, since the start of formal Ivy League play in 1956:

By Dartmouth First Quarter
28 – vs. Colgate, Oct, 21, 1995 (35-14 win)
By Opponent First Quarter
21 – Nine Times, last vs. New Hampshire, Sept. 22, 2007 (52-31 loss)

By Dartmouth Second Quarter
35 – vs. Brown, Oct. 21, 1972 (49-20 win)
By Opponent Second Quarter
28 – vs. New Hampshire, Sept. 22, 2001 (42-38 loss)
28 – vs. Holy Cross, Oct. 13, 2001 (49-17 loss)

By Dartmouth Third Quarter
29 – vs. Brown, Nov. 17, 2018 (49-7 win)
By Opponent Third Quarter
21 – Seven times, last vs. New Hampshire, Sept. 27, 2014 (52-19 loss)

By Dartmouth Fourth Quarter
34 – vs. Princeton, Nov, 18, 2017 (54-44 win)
By Opponent Fourth Quarter
28 – vs. New Hampshire, Sept. 27, 1986 (66-12 loss)
28 – vs. New Hampshire, Sept. 26, 1992 (45-27 loss)
28 – vs. Princeton, Nov. 23, 202 (38-30 loss)

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EXTRA POINT
This is the design on the front of a T-shirt I'm wearing today. Not to be mysterious or anything, but it looks as if I'll be getting a new shirt sometime this summer. And no, we're not selling our '84 VW camper. Stay tuned. ;-)